Thursday, January 5, 2012

Closet organization

I have been at my wits end dealing with the clutter and unorganized state of our closet. Basically I did the big clothing change over in the Fall and then it didn't really stay cold. The kids ended up dragging out a bunch of short sleeve items and everything got all mixed in together in the closet.

Winter also adds more of a challenge in that clothing is bulkier and there are more layers in general. Things just need stored differently. We also have some up and coming kiddos that need drawer space. ;-)

So we did a revamp of the closet!

I didn't think to take before pictures. I will try to paint a word picture for you. Let's see.......

complete and utter chaos. Yep. That describes it pretty well.

I moved in one set of drawers that I picked up at Goodwill Outlet for cheap. The rest of the drawers were already in there.

The top rack is for Evelyn and Sadie. I only have some of Evelyn's there right now. I need to get Sadie's put up. The small drawer set on the left is for undies/socks for the three youngest girlies. Silas gets that single drawer for his pajamas. His jeans are folded on top. One stack for play and one for nice jeans. The pans on the shelf are nicer church pants. I just decided to put all empty hangers above the jeans for now.

Notice the lovely sharpie art on the wall here. This is the prime example of why we don't have a lot of markers or other various art items in the house.

This is directly to the right of Silas' jeans. My clothes are hanging. These drawers weren't finished at the time of the picture. They now hold Some items for Avrie and Evelyn and the bottom drawer is for Silas' undies and socks.

The hanging clothes here are Ellie's, Silas' shirts and Avrie's. Two of the pink drawers are Ellie's since she is needing more space now
that she is bigger. The bottom pink drawer is for leggings for all the
girls. The three larger white drawers are for Avrie, Evelyn and Sadie's pajamas. Tights are going in a tote on the top shelf. They don't use tights much and Evelyn has been getting 2 or 3 pairs of tights out every day trying them on. Up high they go!

Ellie made labels for each drawer. She assigned each child a picture and
put that next to their name. She came up with that idea herself saying
it would help all the non-readers find their drawer. Such a sweetie.You can see a couple of them here on the white drawers.

Oh and see those clothes sitting on top of the drawers? That is not supposed to happen. It's been a couple days now and so far things are staying organized. I've just got to stay on top of things.